哥林多后书 5
天上的房屋
1 我们知道，我们的身体好比是地上的帐篷，如果毁坏了，我们就从上帝那里得到一个住处，不是人手造的，而是天上永恒的“房屋”。2 我们在这地上的“帐篷”里叹息，渴望早日迁进那天上的“房屋”，好像更换衣服一样。3 我们一旦穿上新衣，就不会赤身露体了。4 我们在这“帐篷”里劳苦叹息，并非想脱去这地上的身体，而是切望能穿上那天上的新身体，让永恒的生命吞灭必朽的身体。5 是上帝为此目的预备了我们，并赐给了我们圣灵作担保。
6 所以，我们总是坦然无惧，尽管知道住在肉身之内便无法与主在一起。7 因为我们行事为人，是凭对上帝的信心，不是凭眼见。8 是的，我们坦然无惧，甚至更乐意离开身体，回到天家与主相聚。9 因此，我们立定心志，无论是住在肉身之内还是离开肉身，都要取悦主。10 因为我们所有的人都要出现在基督的审判台前，好按照各人在肉身之时所行的善恶接受赏罚。
劝人与上帝和好
11 我们知道主是当受敬畏的，所以劝人归信祂。我们的内心如何，上帝知道，我盼望你们的良心也知道。12 我们不是称赞自己，而是让你们有机会以我们为荣，叫你们可以反驳那些只贪图外表虚荣、不注重内在实质的人。13 如果我们疯狂，那是为了上帝；如果我们清醒，那是为了你们。14 因为基督的爱激励我们，因为我们确信：基督一人既代替所有的人死了，所有的人就都死了。15 祂为众人死，是要叫那些活着的人不再为自己活，而是要为替他们死而复活的基督活。
16 从今以后，我们不再以貌取人了，虽然我们曾这样看待基督，现在却不再这样看待祂了。17 若有人在基督里，他就是新造的人，旧事已过，看啊，一切都更新了。18 这一切都是上帝的作为，祂借着基督使我们与祂和好，又把劝人与祂和好的职分赐给了我们。19 也就是说，上帝在基督里使世人与自己和好，不再追究他们的过犯。祂已托付我们去传扬这和好之道。20 所以我们现在是基督的大使，可以说上帝正借着我们发出呼求。我们替基督恳求你们：要与上帝和好！21 上帝使无罪的基督担当我们的罪，使我们可以借着基督成为被上帝接纳的义人。
2 Corinthians 5
Living by Faith, Not by Sight
1 For we know that if our earthly house, the tent we live in,s is dismantled,t we have a building from God, a house not built by human hands, that is eternal in the heavens.2 For in this earthly houset we groan, because we desire to put ont our heavenly dwelling,3 if indeed, after we have put ons our heavenly house,t we will not be found naked.4 For we groan while we are in this tent,s since we are weighed down,t because we do not want to be unclothed, but clothed, so that what is mortal may be swallowed up by life.5 Now the one who prepared us for this very purposet is God, who gave us the Spirit as a down payment.t6 Therefore we are always full of courage, and we know that as long as we are alive here on eartht we are absent from the Lord –7 for we livet by faith, not by sight.8 Thus we are full of courage and would prefer to be awayt from the body and at home with the Lord.9 So then whether we are alivet or away, we make it our ambition to please him.t
10 For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ,s so that each one may be paid back according to what he has done while in the body, whether good or evil.t
The Message of Reconciliation
11 Therefore, because we know the fear of the Lord,t we try to persuadet people,t but we are well knownt to God, and I hope we are well known to your consciences too.12 We are not trying to commendt ourselves to you again, but are giving you an opportunity to be proud of us,t so that you may be able to answer those who take pridet in outward appearancet and not in what is in the heart.13 For if we are out of our minds, it is for God; if we are of sound mind, it is for you.14 For the love of Christt controls us, since we have concluded this, that Christt died for all; therefore all have died.15 And he died for all so that those who live should no longer live for themselves but for him who died for them and was raised.t16 So then from now on we acknowledget no one from an outward human point of view.t Even though we have known Christ from such a human point of view,t now we do not know him in that way any longer.17 So then, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; what is old has passed awayt – look, what is news has come!t18 And all these things are from God who reconciled us to himself through Christ, and who has given us the ministry of reconciliation.19 In other words, in Christ God was reconciling the world to himself, not counting people’s trespasses against them, and he has given ust the message of reconciliation.20 Therefore we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making His pleat through us. We plead with yout on Christ’s behalf, “Be reconciled to God!”
21 Godt made the one who did not know sins to be sin for us, so that in hims we would become the righteousness of God.
